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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, downtown Vernal, Utah is shown. State health officials are pledging to look into claims that stillbirths are on the rise in the Eastern Utah community of Vernal, that is home to a boom in gas and oil development. Activists say a climbing rate of neonatal deaths in the Uinta Basin stems from industrial smog. But researchers and health officials aren’t ready to draw such a link. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin, File)

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Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery, right, places his hand on the shoulder of the team's first round draft pick, Virginia Tech cornerback Kyle Fuller, after an NFL football news conference Friday, May 9, 2014, in Lake Forest, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Chicago Bears first round draft pick Kyle Fuller, center, a cornerback from Virginia Tech, is flanked by head coach Marc Trestman, left, and general manager Phil Emery, as they listen to a question after Fuller was introduced during an NFL football news conference Friday, May 9, 2014, in Lake Forest, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Becca Foote, of Orrick, Mo., surveys the damage caused by a severe storm that passed through Orrick, northeast of Kansas City, Mo., on Saturday, May 10, 2014. Heavy storms spawning at least one tornado hit northwest Missouri, damaging homes and power lines. No injuries were immediately reported. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Mark Morris)

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This photo from Friday, May 2, 2014, shows a display of two stuffed lesser prairie chickens at the Kansas Statehouse, in Topeka, Kan. Gov. Sam Brownback announced Saturday, May 10, 2014 that he signed a bill late Friday responding to the federal government's listing of the bird as threatened by declaring that only the state can regulate them and their habitats. (AP Photo/John Hanna)